Drew Shade (Founder, The Broadway Black Podcast) is a theatre enthusiast who fosters artistic diversity and excellence for the love of Black theatre artists. He is the Founder/Creative Director/Editor-in-Chief of Broadway Black, a digital platform designed to shed light on the black beauty, black brilliance, and black talent that is Black Broadway. He is the creator and co-host of the Off-Book Podcast which features the incredible talent of people of color in the Broadway community from playwrights, to performers, to stage managers, and more. He also is the Creator and Executive Producer for The Antonyo Awards, an awards show which specifically drew attention to awarding honors to Black theatre artists across the Broadway community. “Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief.” – August Wilson

Organized by Frank Leon Roberts, Assistant Professor of Theater.

The Revolution Will Be Dramatized: Black Theater Now is a public conversation series organized by the Theater Program at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. A part of the Lang undergraduate course of the same name, the mission of the series is to introduce students to leading black theater artists, professionals, and practitioners whose work traverses the boundaries of art, politics, and social justice. What is the relationship between black theater and black activism? Moreover, what does it mean to think of black theater as activism? Inspired by the writer Toni Cade Bambara’s famous claim that “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” this public facing conversation series invites audiences to think about the ways in which theater---and the arts more broadly--- “matter” to the work of social justice.

All events are open to the public via webinar format and require registration. Zoom link will be sent in advance of the event.